Goals For This WordPress Install Guide
By the end of this WordPress blog install and set up guide, you will have set up:
- Your website:
- A blog accessible at yourdomain.com.
- A contact page with contact form [LINK]
- An about page [LINK] that tells people who you are
- A site map [LINK] for visitors, (and a secondary one for Google)
- Optional: If you migrate from an existing, free blog [LINK] on WordPress.com, we’ll discuss how to ensure all your old posts from your previous blog are imported and available to readers at the new website.
- Email - Email address you@yourdomain.com
- Statistics
- Install Google Analytics [LINK] so you can see statistics about your visitors
- Install Feedburner [LINK] for statistics on RSS Subscribers
- Reading and Subscribing
- Set up Blog Email subscriptions [LINK] for your subscribers
- Add a copyright notice, link back to your blog and other such information to your RSS Feed and Email Subscriptions
- Show readers similar posts from your blog [LINK] on your blog posts, in your RSS feed, and in email subscriptions
- Show readers the best/most popular posts on your blog [LINK]
- Set up a favicon for your blog [LINK] (the icon that appears in your address bar)
- Comments:
- Set up threaded comments on your blog posts [LINK]
- Allo user avatars on comments [LINK]
- Manage blog comments over email [LINK]. We’ll set up the ability for you to respond to, approve and even mark as spam comments via email.
- Backups: Set up process to backup your blog [LINK]
- Plugins – Discuss how to install, set up and upgrade wordpress plugins [LINK]
- Blog Design/Themes
- Walkthrough step by step how to install a wordpress theme [LINK]
- Install and customize “Widgets” – the items in the sidebar of your blog [LINK]
Sound daunting? It doesn’t need to be – just follow these direction. Let’s get started by first registering your domain [LINK]
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